David Ott, MD

A graduate of the UCLA School of Medicine, Dr. Ott completed his orthopedic residency in Phoenix. His expertise is in joint replacement and arthroscopic surgery, which includes the muscle-sparing anterior hip replacement. Dr. Ott isMedical Director for CopperPoint Mutual Ins Co., Chief of Staff of OASIS Hospital, President of Gateway Surgery Center and Senior Vice President of Operations of OrthoArizona.

“I was always interested in learning about the human body and I was really good at science. But I think I even surprised myself at age 16, when my high school guidance counselor asked what I wanted to be and I said “a doctor”. My mom was shocked, too. I’m from a family of six kids and because I didn’t get into a lot of trouble, I kind of flew under the radar. After that declaration, I was committed. I went to University of California Riverside for pre-med. On the first day of freshman year, they told the 144 kids in the bio-med department that only 24 of us would be admitted to UCLA medical school. As it turned out, 20 of us were admitted. I entered medical school thinking I’d become an internist. During my rotations though, I found that we were treating a lot of patients, but not curing them. In orthopedics, we were fixing people. When anyone asks me now what kind of surgery I do, I say, “those that work”. I like to make people feel better.”